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Newsom Has Been ‘Trump-Proofing’ California Rather than ‘Wildfire-Proofing’

January 8, 2025 7:18 pmJanuary 8, 2025 7:18 pm

More than 100 wildfires are tearing through Southern California burning down entire neighborhoods. Homeowners are reporting that insurance companies recently cancelled their fire insurance. Firefighters report that fire hydrants are dry or have little water pressure. The Globe called this...

California’s Perfect Storm: Historical Devastating Fires and the State’s Insurance Crisis

January 8, 2025 8:24 amJanuary 9, 2025 12:10 pm

As wildfires tear through Southern California burning down entire neighborhoods, homeowners are reporting that insurance companies recently cancelled their fire insurance. California’s perfect storm is a mishmash of destructive water policy, environmental policy, and a political insurance crisis. The Southern...

Zuckerberg to Replace Facebook ‘Fact Checkers’ With Community Notes

January 7, 2025 7:19 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:20 am

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...

SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’

January 6, 2025 10:59 amJanuary 6, 2025 9:46 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters, which reduced property tax rates on homes, businesses, and farms by about 57%. Opponents have long claimed that because of...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

January 5, 2025 9:10 amJanuary 5, 2025 9:15 am

U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...

Who and What is Behind Wrecking Our Food Supply?

January 5, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 6, 2025 7:32 pm

What is happening to our food supply? Cows are under attack, meat packing and food processing plants have burned to the ground across the country, avian flu was unleashed and millions of chickens have been culled. California growers and ranchers...

California Minimum Wage Madness

January 3, 2025 10:54 amJanuary 3, 2025 10:54 am

“Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Economist Thomas Sowell explained in 2013. “As for being ‘compassionate’ toward ‘the poor,’ this assumes that there is some enduring class of...